BRING BACK THE 2016 OVER-THE-KNEE BOOTS

Welcome to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly. Yeah, I mean, consider this my audition for the show Traders because I have a secret and I could make you think one way or the other I feel like. And Liz. And my makeup was all over the place and I'm like, I've literally went from never looking better to have never looking worse in just a span of hours. Your mom time all starts now. Welcome back to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly and Liz. And you're still having it. I'm still pregnant. Okay. I just want to like get this out of the way. I want to apologize for like the chaos, chaos, the chaos, sorry of Wednesday's episode because it was so my mind like wasn't right that you know, we had recorded the episode before we had announced to Instagram. So like in a way, like I just wasn't ready to like fully flesh out the news and the excitement. And it's just this new recording schedule is so where because I feel like I'm living in multiple different realities because like I'm in the reality that is my life, the reality of what I've recorded on the podcast and then the reality of when you guys have heard the podcast. And it's just very hard to keep my reality straight. Yeah. Do you know I can hardly keep one straight totally. But I am so happy the news is out. Me too. I kind of like for everyone was just like so excited and happy for me, which I'm really thankful and I appreciate everyone being like, I just I feel so like loved and seen on my Instagram and in my DMs. And I just it's so it's so exciting. How are you? Have you given any heads based on the fact that you're actually going to have three children? You know, the timeline is a little bit quicker than maybe I wanted, but we were kind of faced with so our brother is getting married June of 2027 in England. So I was like, I'm not going to wait until June of 27 to get pregnant because I wanted baby sooner than that. But I also wanted to be as postpartum and have as old of a baby as possible. If I'm going to probably leave the baby when I go to England or even if I bring the baby or whatever, I don't we don't really have all the details works out on who and what and where and what who's going to England. But I wanted to be as postpartum as possible. So Maddie and I were like, let's just we just got to we just got to try we just got to go for it. And so it's a little bit quicker than I would have thought, but you know, God doesn't make mistakes. And this is the exact baby that God wanted me to have. So we're going to make it work. We're going to thrive. And when I told mom, mom was like, Oh, Elizabeth. And I'm like, first of all, Chris, I'm actually rocking your exact timeline. Kelly and I are 16 months apart. Me, James and Sloan are 15 months apart. Me and Craig are two years apart. And this baby and Sloan will be 23 months apart. Yeah. So. Yeah, it's doable. It's not crazy. It's not like I have like two sets of Irish trend twins or something like it's fine. Totally, totally. It's um, yeah, it is, it is. I mean, there's a level of like kind of a kick shoe down when you think that you're starting over. That's probably it's not necessarily I feel like the amount of kids, but it's just like the pure, just like starting over again. But you know, the baby's always the easiest part. That's the part is part about a baby is the toddler. You know what I mean? So totally. And I'm ready for anti-cal is ready to take some of the older kids to and it is so fun that like James and Fred and Sloan and Libby are all the same age because just what am I going to notice? Bring them. They will actually make your life easier if I drop two kids per same age off at your house. 100%. We are definitely we are slowly approaching the age where it's just like drop them off. Don't care. Don't notice. Yeah. I mean, I mean, I would also is so fun about today and just make my my life right now is I actually know the gender of your baby. I know. So I wanted to have like a proper like film it. Maddie and I find the gender at the exact same time. The first two times they were anti-climactic. I found out first like it was nothing exciting. And so this time I was like I really want to do it right. So I asked my friend if she would coordinate. I don't know what her plan is. She has some plan coordinate like a gender reveal just like a private one for me and Maddie and the kids. But when the doctor called me or the nurse called me with my results, I was with Kelly. Of course. She like do you want to know the gender of your baby and I said you need to tell my sister because I can't know. So Kelly knows of my mom knows and my friend knows Maddie and I don't know. And I like I can't look at your face because I will be able to tell. No you want your face. I had to look away from you when mom told you because I knew I'd be able to tell. Okay. Well look at my face and make your prediction based on my face. No. When you start talking about it not when you just stare at me blankly. No. No. Let me tell you something. I have a poker face. Oh. Do you know? 100% I have a poker face. And I feel I thought it would be like a harder thing. I thought I was not going to be able to be around you or like talk to you. I don't feel that way at all. It is so compartmentalized put away in a box under my bed in my mind right now. Like I won't pull it back out until you know. See and that makes me think I know what it is. You just even saying that alone. What are you talking about? Because we both said in the last podcast where like if it's a boy we won't be shocked and like it will just be like okay it's a boy. And if it's a girl we'll be like goopting gagged. And so the fact that you're just like I don't care I'm compartmentalized like it's I'm not even thinking about it makes me to believe that it's boy. Interesting. Well. You'll find out soon enough. Only time will tell. And when are you finding out? So my friend was like what's the longest you can give me? And I'm like girl a couple days like I can't sit on this for very long. And so she said she can get what she needs to get done by Friday. So today but we're recording this on Wednesday. So I have to just wait till Friday and then I'll probably announce it like immediately when we get to be able to. Yeah I mean like consider this my audition for the show traders because like I have a like I have a secret and I could like make you think one way or the other I feel like. I don't want to see now that you say that well whatever I'm not going to go I'm not going to dissect your well here's what I will tell you. It's definitely one or the other. I'm calm you know what I mean totally anyway so that's what's new with Liz. Yeah. Yeah what's new with you. What is new with me? Well Libby is not sleeping. I'm not talking about kicking us while we're down talking about telling you have got to just talk to the sleep trainer. No I'm sorry I I'm I'm not going to waste someone's time is what I'm not going to do and I would be wasting this person's time because I'm just like I'm not going to stick to I'm not disciplined enough to stick to a schedule and sorry I'm trying to get her to go down to one nap and it's just really difficult because then like she is taking one long nap and then she's going to bed too early and she's waking up too early and like if I try to put her down for a little nap then she's up too late. I'm figuring it out I'm going to have done this three times over so like this is just a season of my life but she's challenging on the sleep and I am considering looking and do help with the potty training for old Fred because here's the problem in front I'm sorry if you have to listen back to this in 18 years but like this is what I'm going through right now this is my truth. I can't get him to go number two on the potty. I just can't do it. Number one every time never misses a beat like he's totally fine and the hard part about number two is I get one chance a day. Yeah. One chance a day. Yeah. And if I miss that chance it's like then the learning isn't going until tomorrow. Yeah. And it has been incredibly challenging and speak of him here he is come here Fred. Hi Fred. I also have Libby napping and Fred with a blow pop in an iPad so I can get this for podcast recording say hello. Yeah. Hi. Hi buddy. Fred's got a big old birthday coming up he will be three next week. We're having a party on Friday. What kind of party are we having? Budget. Yeah. So that was Spider-Mitch because he really wants a web shooter which I don't even know where he saw it but like he wants it. Web shooter. And I thought something would be fun for the party is I got silly string. Oh yeah. So fun. So fun right? So fun. Yeah. That would be a good time. Okay. I'm going to keep working. Okay. Say goodbye. Bye. Bye Fred. Thanks for that love. Love Fred came out any chance we get any chance. So anyway that's what I'm trying to figure out. What to do with that because we've been working on it since I'm not kidding you. November. Who do they always say is harder to party train boys or girls? They say boys. Okay. And the thing is number one was overnight like I told him at one time and he was like okay. Yeah. Okay. And it's hard because like there's a level of it's like he knows what he's doing. And he hides. And I know what you're thinking. It's like well Kelly just catch him when he's high. It's like well I don't know to tell you I'm not always prioritizing the kid who's being quiet. Do you know what I mean? Sometimes it's like I am so in survival mode that I'm just meeting the immediate needs of the crying children. Yeah. And the one who's sitting quietly in the corner isn't always my first priority. Yeah. So that is a big challenge for us at the moment. Okay. We that's something that's on my list that I like need to tackle but I'm just like so dreading dreading it. But you know what I um something interesting. I recently got a new doctor for Sloan and we went in for her whatever her 16 month appointment. And um the doctor told me she said with before baths and when she wakes up in the morning like when you're changing her diaper just put her on the potty like she's 16 months old. And she was I know it's just to like remove that fear and just so that they're kind of used to it. And then when they're older and you're like okay this is the potty we're going to start doing this. It's not this like totally new thing. And she was like put her on the potty put her sitting reverse so she can like play and like put some toys up there and let her play for a little bit for a few minutes. She might even go. It's not like to try and teach them that like now is the time to go potty but it's just like removing the fear from the potty. So we've been doing that a little while I've been doing that before baths with her. Okay. I have never heard that. I've never heard that. I was really surprised. But this doctor's like all about like development like she's like she's like very into like development and milestones and that's her thing. And yeah. Yeah. So just on the internet like Sloan just like sits right on it and she's just like stairs on me and I hand her a toy and like when I try and put James on the potty it's a fight. And I'm like maybe if I would have introduced it to him when he was 16 months old maybe he wouldn't be so concerned about it. It's like sitting on a chair. So like if Libby constantly opens the toilet and sticks her hands down it like do you think am I doing enough like is the fear I don't think she scared of the toilet. I think it's actually her favorite thing in the world. Yeah. Yeah. No, I think it might just yeah, might maybe like I fear if I teach her to climb on it she'll just find herself sitting in it. Maybe she'll be pinted right. Maybe she can teach for that thing. So I thought that was an interesting tidbit. Yeah. No, it's something I haven't heard. Something I haven't heard. Yeah. No, he's so darn cute but I don't know what I'm going to do about that. So anyway, that's what's new with us. We got a Spiderman birthday party coming up. We're trying to pie a train. Libby isn't napping. And I very much had a day yesterday like we had our photo shoot and that was like such let me be clear like we like paid for this photo shoot like we got our makeup done. We like it but it's fun. Like you I felt like a supermodel like they offered a champagne like it was fun. Like you feel like supermodel for like two hours. And to be in the full beat full glam and then to like go home right back into like mom mode. I can't imagine how like a celebrity feels. Hmm. And it's just like you were just like on the Golden Globes red carpet and like now you're like wiping the toddler's butt. Yeah. Yeah. Like stars are just like us. Um, yeah. At the end of the night after I had full glam and I was like I'm so good like I looked up in the mirror as I was like putting Sloan's pajamas on the her changing table. And like my mascara had started running. Yeah. And like my makeup was all over the place and I'm like I've literally went from like never looking better to have never looking worse in just a span of hours. I can't do those fake lashes. I was not I don't like those. Oh, I read them off. They make me so tired. Okay. So I was at dinner. I went out to dinner with a friend last night and I was like oh I'm not going to waste the glam. I'm like I'm going to keep my lashes on like I'm going to look nice at dinner. I get to dinner. I'm like I can't stop yawning. And I'm like I am so sorry. Like I am a little tired but like this is so embarrassing. I'm like struggling to keep my eyes open yawning at the dinner table. And I was finally like I think it's these stupid lashes. So mid dinner. I ripped the lashes off at the table disgusting. And then I was wide awake. It was like a head of a shot of espresso. I was like okay I'm fine. What is up with that? They make me so tired. I don't know. I'm trying to do everything. It's like some sort of sensory thing. Oh, you know what speaking of sensory things is so random because I'm like nauseous when she was doing my eye makeup yesterday. Anytime she would like touch my eye and like put eyeliner on and stuff. Oh my god it made me want to throw up. Oh gosh. You got to be careful. That's it. That's actually a sensation that probably is entirely only unique to me. But just having someone like pressed down on my eyes when I was already feeling nauseous made me feel so sick. Um, anyway our photos turned out good. So happy to have had them done. Today's episode is brought to you by Alma. Where do you want to be a year from now? Who do you want to be? And maybe more importantly who's on your team helping you get there because the right therapist, someone who makes you feel comfortable, challenges you in the right ways and has the clinical skills to support you can make a huge difference. That's why I tell you about Alma. Alma's on a mission to simplify access to high quality affordable mental health care and they've built a nationwide network of over 20,000 diverse therapists. What's great about their platform is it's easy to find someone who fits your needs. You can browse their therapist directory without even having to make an account and you can filter things like insurance, gender and therapeutic approach and more. And affordability matters. 99% of Alma therapists accept insurance and people who find a therapist through Alma save an average of 80% on the cost of sessions. They even have a free insurance cost estimator so you would know exactly what you'll pay up front. A year from today isn't that far away. Get started now at helloalma.com slash Carpool. That's hello Alma. ALMA.com slash Carpool. C-A-R-P-O-O-L. Today's episode is brought to you by Quince. These days I'm all about quality over quantity. You guys know I am decluttering my house and so if things in my closet are not well made and versatile, they're not worth it to me. I'm getting rid of them. And that's why I love Quince. The fabrics feel elevated. The cuts are thoughtful and the pricing actually makes sense. Quince makes high quality wardrobe staples using premium fabrics like 100% European linen, 100% silk and organic cotton poplin. Lightweight cotton cashmere sweaters perfect for the changing seasons and can't miss seasonal colors and prints for spring. First tile, well made pieces that make getting dressed simple. Did you also know that Quince sells kids clothes and like home goods? I just got some of these linen blackout curtains for my bedroom and they're wonderful. They are great quality, really thick, willy-rell made and they look amazing. Quince is always my go-to when I need really anything. I go to see if it's available on Quince first because you're going to get the best price and the best quality. So right now go to quince.com slash Carpool for free shipping in 365 day returns. It's a full year to wear it and love it and you will. Now available in Canada too. Don't keep settling for clothes that don't last. Go to quintc.com slash Carpool for free shipping in 365 day returns. Quince.com slash Carpool. So I wanted to talk about, have you seen that they're saying like 2016 is coming back? No, I saw someone post it but I didn't know what it was in reference to. Yeah, and here's what I don't know. I don't know if 2016 is actually coming back or if all the millennials just are trying to center themselves and trying to like use as an excuse to show their pictures. Because I haven't heard of them. I haven't heard of them. I have heard of them. Jen Z's mouth. That 2016 is coming back. Also like 2016. I don't think they know what that means. Well, 2016 was 10 years ago. Well, that's insane. But I've seen a lot of people be posting it. And where were you in 2016? I was graduating college. College. Yeah, 2016 I had just gotten back to college. I had spent the semester before in LA. So I am just now getting back. It's my junior year of college. It was a good year. I don't remember. I think the biggest thing from 2016 was like, I think it was just like the full beat makeup. I don't really remember. It was probably like peak skinny jeans season. But I don't think it was that offensive of like, I don't think it was like that offensive of a fashion year or a time. For so long, it was just skinny jeans and a cute top and boots. Like, that's just what we were wearing. I think I wore a lot of like plum lips. Back then. So the best post that I've seen of this, do you know who CM Coving is? Oh, yeah, I do know who that is. Okay, so she did. Her to bring back 2016. Do you remember these? No one was more viral than her in 2016. Yeah, yeah. I would actually probably remember hers. Like, look at this photo. Yeah, right. She was like the comic. The Pepple and Bow top. Like, I wanted this Louis Vuitton never full more than anything in the world because it wasn't her photo. And like, the over the knee boots, please bring these back. Here's you guys with those suede over the knee boots. Let me tell you guys a quick story. So when I was selling cars, when I had Whole Foods money, our dad always told us that like when he started having success in the car business, like his first big month, like big month, he went out and bought a fish tank, which was like so funny. Like, he bought this huge fish tank, which was such like a guy thing to buy. And I don't know if he like told me to go buy something, but he was like, you know, on your first big month, like it's fun to celebrate with a milestone. Probably like not the best financial advice, but it was fine. And I was like, I know what I'm going to buy. You're sticky. Okay, go wash your hands in the sink. Sorry, he's sticky from the blow-pop. We got that. Yeah. So I had like my first, I was like salesman of the month. I had made, I don't know, a lot of money for living at home for myself at the time. And I was like, but hindsight not enough to justify the purchase I'm about to tell you. And I was like, I know what I'm going to buy. Do you know what I bought? Yeah. You bought your Stewart White's men over the knee, black-swaired boots. And I groveled over this purchase because I was like, should I do brown? Should I do gray? Should I do like what heel height should I do? And I was like, these are so classic. These will never go out. I'll have to be the rest of my life forever, forever. I wore the soles off of them. Like, because I did. I worked on it. And I did. Because I was like, I wore them to work almost every single day in the winter. Because I was like, if I'm going to spend the money, like, I'm going to get my money's worth. And I wore them to bits. No, do you still have them? Of course I still have them. Oh, because here's the thing, they're going to come back. I know, but the thing is like, they're to beat up. Like they're not, I couldn't, it would, they're not even like black anymore. Like they're like sun-faded like water stains like suede boots. But I did buy the Stewart Whites and boots and yeah, I, I love them. I mean, I think there's nothing more flattering than like a dress in an over the knee boot. Like I just thought it was a very iconic. I was, I was thankful that like the over the knee boots was during that time of my life. Like my early 20s. Really? Well, because I was going out all the time and outfits were so easy, skinny jeans over the knee boots, cute top on repeat. Like every outfit, dress over the knee boots, skirt over the knee boots. You could always look stunning and fabulous in your over the knee boots. You didn't have to think about it. And it's like, what would I, what would I even do now with an over the knee boot? Like and that's why I'm thankful that at that phase of my life it was over the knee boots and at this phase of my life, it's Mary Jane's and Valerie and a flat. I know we're so lucky. We're so, we do not talk about that enough. Like could you imagine if we were moms in like 2010 when like the six inch platforms were in? Yeah, tough. Tough to remember. Were they were they following that? Cause like you could not be caught dead in a kitten heel or a ballerina flat at that time. No, and now it's like so. Now like a super high heel is just like trying too hard. Like now it's like all about like not having that amazing of a shoe or that tall of a shoe. Um, so yeah, two 2016. I also saw a great real from, do you know who tinks is? Yeah. Okay. And she was talking about like 2016 and she was just saying how like it was such a different time in terms of like what people would buy. And like the way we would. It's just like Instagram wasn't this like instantaneous like buy now, buy now. Click this link, click this link. It was more like it was a chronological feed and you like very much like got in to like you tuned in to see what your favorites were doing. And like if someone like posted a picture, like you would wait for them to like write the blog post that had the links in it. Right. Yeah. And be like, oh my gosh, I need the link. And she was saying this about like the triangle bikinis. You remember the triangles? Oh, I had one of those. I know. I didn't, but I would borrow yours all the time. I remember. And it was like you didn't just like swipe up and buy the triangle. Like your favorite blogger was wearing it. And then like you stalked the website and like you had to go like dig deep to find out what it was. And it like wasn't there was a lot less impulse. And I actually feel like we were like smarter more. I feel like we were like we were. We wore the socks off of things, I think in 2016. Yeah. Oh, sure. Do you know what I mean? For sure. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm going through my my photos right now. It's like there's a lot about to repeats. Um, even back then like Amazon was in a thing. So like I remember when we would have like date parties where there was like themes. You didn't just like order something off Amazon. Like you were going to party city or like goodwill or commercials to like try and find something within the theme. By the time Grace and was going to these parties when she was in a sorority, it was like Oh, just order off Amazon. Yeah. It's just so it's just so interesting. Yeah. No, I don't think 2016 is coming back at all. I think people are just using this as an excuse to post-the-world photos because it's funny. Yeah. So this was me in February 13th, 2016 and we had a space themed party for my sorority. And yeah, there's no what did I do? I hit up the craft store and I found I found stars that go on your ceiling and I glued them to a headband because I just couldn't like order Amazon. I never visited Hobby Lobby more than when I was in. We were just like we were crafting our own things. We were crafting. We were creative. So also say is I'm good with elements. I look back at these 2016 pictures. I don't feel an egg. No, I'm like, I'm like wow, like this girl is like so skinny and has is so carefree, you know? But even since with her friends all the time, like she's actually she really was thriving and I'm really happy for who she was. But even like aside from that, like I'm looking at these outfits being like no, like it's it's actually I think we dress very flattering back then. And like I was very colorful like I like the chunky necklaces. I'm sorry, you're never going to hate me. Kicking on a chunky necklace like objectively this is a cute outfit and orange dress with a teal chunky necklace. It's a good color combo. It is. Everyone's in the neutrals now. It's like get creative. I know. I know. Maybe it is coming back. I know. So I know I wanted to chat to you about that with you. Making things are coming back. And this is so funny because I'm on my Kelly dot stumpy Instagram page. I don't know the lock into this one anymore. My last post is from November 7th, 2021. And like I guess I started the car mom in June of 2020. I guess I like kept both of them like kind of posting and then I just like totally stopped. Yeah, like I don't I mean these are such cute photos that just are going to live here forever because they don't know how to log back in. Yeah, well that'll be nice to revisit. Don't you think about that like how like to see photos of our parents when they were kids like we look through photo albums and such. Like how are our kids going to see like all of our photos just like find our Instagram pages that we lost the passwords to. I guess so. I'm sure I will help. So true. Anyway, speaking of things that are trending, I saw this post in the Carpool Facebook page and we were talking about like what's the next food? Like what's the next trending food? Yeah. And I think this girl hit hit hit the nail on the head. It is in fact the sweet potato. It is the sweet potato. Yeah. Which I don't think this would be ever totally was out. But sweet potato sales are definitely up. Yeah, no for sure. I mean, I as you know how I have to eat things. I just like look at people eating them and the only thing people are eating on the internet right now is a sweet potato stuff with cheese. And so I literally was on my couch feeling so sick watching videos of people eating sweet potato stuff with cheese. I had to instacart it. And then it gets to my house and I have to wait 45 minutes for the freaking thing to cook and then 15 minutes for to cool down. It was a labor of love. Yeah. And it hit. It hit. Yeah. It's teaching delayed gratification because and if you don't know like the girl who started this Courtney cooks go find her on social media. She first of all couldn't be more delightful. Like she is such a good warm fun personality. And I don't really know much else about her other than I just like her food, I guess. And she eats very, I'll use the word like creatively and resourcefully. So she's like always just like getting a green onion. And like she's not chopping them. She's just taking a bite out of a green onion. Like just chopping the green onion. And I guess like in her mouth she's curing the perfect bite because she's like bite of a sweet potato, bite of a green onion. She's chewing it together. She's getting the same mouth feel as if you would have chopped it. But she's a teacher and she's like I don't have time to chop this and I wanted a green onion. And she's chomping on a green onion. It's kind of insane. It's good content. I don't even fully know why it's good content, but it is. It will. I would have that. You know, and maybe don't watch it until you have a sweet potato. 100%. It's cheese on hand. But you know what I ate it, I did eat it twice. It's not like my life was changed. It did like scratch like the very specific pregnancy craving itch. Like it's not like the most iconic like food hack I've seen on the internet. Yeah. Well sweet potato, but sweet potatoes are having a moment. I just had I was a much a trader Joe's and so obviously to look at trader Joe's five items are less first. And she posted a really good sweet potato recipe sweet potato, cowboy caviar guacamole, sour cream, cilantro. Yes. More of that. Yeah. More of that. More of that. More of that. More of that. 26. A load of sweet potato is I mean, I switch to my favorite food. Like if I had a restaurant and super-tatorizer on the menu, they're ordered. I'm ordering them. Mm-hmm. I love super potatoes. I love sweet potatoes. So, anyway. Okay. Liz, that was a lot of dilly and dallying. So on today's episode, we have catch up, which we just did. I have a base model luxury that I really think you're going to make fun of, but it's fine. I've got some industry news that we've got to just the drive through. I get so nervous. I also want to give you a nervous. Now, when you tell me about you have a base model luxury. And that's fine. And that's fine. Oh, one more other update. I wanted to tell you. So I'm still going through all of my pants. And let me just tell you, I am enjoying it immensely. So if you missed it, I'm trying to do less, I'm not doing a challenge, but I'm trying to do less, less, less, less leisure in January. And my life is very much set up where it's like I can kind of wear whatever I want because I work from my phone. So I can like, I can wear, I don't have like a strict dress code to follow. I can just wear whatever I want every day. It's like such a blessing. I have so many pants. And I'm like, it's so hard to get dressed because it's like, well, if I wear that pant, what shoe, what top combo? So anyway, I'm going through all my jeans in order. So like, however, they're hung up in my closet. That's what I'm going through. And if I try them on and like, I can't come up with an outfit like on the spot, I'm putting them in my purgatory bin. I'm not getting rid of anything yet, but they're going in purgatory. Today, I pulled out my last pair of skinny jeans. Oh, you're not skinny. They're straight-legged. Like, there's, I can fit three fingers in between my ankle and the jean. Sure. Yeah, that's what you mean. Yeah, they're not skin tight. And I was like, I'm going to do it. And I did it. Okay, good. I love this not a challenge for you. I was kind of uncomfortable in my stretchiest pair of jeans. So I think jeans are going to be put away for me for the... You put them away. Forciable future. But I did look into the hilarious wet pants jeans I'm ordering a pair. They come in tall. I might want to. You are. It's not. It's going to be a long-hot summer. I mean, we just did this two summers ago. What did I wear? I just looked like a beached whale and biker shorts all summer. Then that's the problem, Kelly. I only wear biker shorts. And now I fear biker shorts are out. Oh, no. I know what I'm supposed to wear. What were the pregnant girls wearing in 2016? That's actually a really good question because that might help me because I... It might just be like a lot of dresses for me. I don't know. I'm going to... I was so happy to have a summer baby. I'm like, I'm not going to have to buy any new pregnancy clothes. But I just don't think like a tank and biker shorts are going to cut it this year. I think you need to get into a linen pant, too. Do you have those athletic linen pants? Yeah, but you know what the weird... When you wear like a body condresses, it's a lot of body condresses. Oh, that makes sense with a chunky necklace, yeah. I just feel like when you wear pants, like a linen pant, you have to roll it below your belly. And then you're like got a crop and you got a belly out. Oh, and I think like... That's what the... You have to realize, Gen Zs are getting pregnant these days because they're old enough. Yeah. That's what they're doing. They freed the bump. They freed the bump. I think you might be right. You know what I mean? We've been just... I thought to cover and cover and cover. And they're wearing their pants below their bump. They're doing the Rachel Green. They freed the bump. I want to see you freed the bump in 26. You know what I see? I see it on Instagram. I'm not sure I'm walking through the grocery store and I'm seeing a freed bump. You don't think? I don't know. I don't know. Maybe. I've seen belly button. I think you're seen. I don't know. We'll have to see. Then what are you seeing? I feel like that's the only part of the bump. We'll see. I don't know. I might just be wearing a backer shorts. Just no one look at me. Just honestly, for the next... For the next several months, no one needs to look at me. Okay. Just over your eyes. Please leave me your coat. Oh, also, no one's complimented my lighting. Probably because we haven't clipped this yet. But I changed my lighting yet again and I think it's the best it's ever looked. Yeah, my lighting looks... Couldn't look worse if I tried. No. We look... We officially no longer look like we're in the same studio. No, I know. It's really bad. Okay. Something to worry about. Anyway, okay. I have to know what this base model luxury is, Kelly, because I... I just... I'm a little bit nervous. You may be losing the plot on base model luxury. So I'm just curious to know what you've come up with today. Okay. So lately I have... Kind of been transitioning from diaper bag to purse because... Well, one I have to carry on my EpiPens now. And... So I've just found myself like constantly with a purse. Prior to the allergic reaction, I was not a purse girl. I was an andro wallet phone in my side pocket into the target. Now I'm too anxious to go anymore without my EpiPens. So you'll always catch me with a bag these days. And I've actually very much enjoyed carrying a purse. Carrying a purse is not my base model luxury. But if you're not carrying a purse, my high suggested. But... Curating the content in your purse and then using the content in your purse is a base model luxury. And I will give you very tangible examples. So like, we've all seen the like, what's my bag videos? And they have like... Just... I'm sorry. They have all this crap they're not using. Like they're just using crap. I have loved though, or like putting things in my purse and then making a really conscious decision to like use them when I'm out. For example, a hand sanitizer. Oh, even after I wash my hands at the bathroom, I'm hand sanitizing because it's like, well, it's in my bag. It's in my purse. I'm gonna stick through my purse. Chapstick lip gloss, a hand lotion, a hairbrush, mints, a... Like whatever you need to keep in your purse, one, stock your purse, two, use it. Use it all the time. Use it every... Like every hour. It is just really fun. Okay. Two-base metal luxury is to... not only carry a purse, but carry things in the purse. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did I... Did I... Did I... Did I... Did I... Did I... Did I... Did I... Did I... Did I... Did I... Sorry. I see now how that was stupid. Um, just something I've been doing. I've been enjoying carrying a purse. It really is something that is so new for you because you never carry a purse. Yeah. Um... And yeah, okay. Okay. That sounds... That sounds great. What do you think is... What do you think is the crap that people are carrying in their purse when they do the... Oh, it's just like the over-counter... Like the over-consumption people. Oh, yeah. Totally. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Totally. That's all. That's all. That's all. Thank you, Emily. Today's episode is brought to you by Skylight. I have had my Skylight for over a year now. And I really like it. For my family, it works well for meal planning. I can schedule our meals and our grocery lists all on the app. And I can see it so it reminds me on the calendar. I also like it for the shared calendar. And most of the time, though, it is just running as like a picture frame. So we have pictures that pop up all through the app, all controlled through the app. The Skylight calendar is just so great to keep my family organized. It was designed to connect the digital and non-digital worlds while bringing families together. It's a Wi-Fi connected digital display that showcases your family's schedule with clarity, color, and brilliance in either a 10 or 15-inch HD touchscreen. This all-in-one smart calendar syncs seamlessly with Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, and Morgan. You customize the customizable views for daily, weekly, or monthly planning. This is really nice for me and Maddie to keep our two calendars all organized. Your happiness is Skylight's happiness. So if in 120 days, you are not 100% thrilled with your purchase, you can return it for a full refund. No questions asked. Right now, Skylight is offering our listeners $30 off their 15-inch calendar is by going to myskylight.com slash carpal. Go to myskylight.com slash carpal for $30 off your 15-inch calendar. That is myskylyght.com slash carpal. Okay, well, are you ready for industry news? Where I was supposed to hot T2T going on in the auto industry? Yeah, girl. That based on a luxury was so lame, I'm so sorry. No, I'm afraid you're losing the plot on what is. It's supposed to be like... No, but I think it's like if your purse is dirty and not full of things that you're using, clean out your purse, it feels good to have a clean purse. And it's a very controllable area of your life that you can invest in and it will stay clean and stay useful for you. That's all I'm saying. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Great. Okay. A couple of stories, I think like two exciting going on, but there's something exciting going on. First of all, GEM, this is from Automotive News. GM, I said GEM. GM is still studying plug and hybrids. CEO Mary Barra says, Mary Barra writes, speaks with Reuters reporter, at an Automotive Press Association event in Detroit. In the past plug-ins, we're the only hybrids that actually counted towards the regulatory perspective. So we have to do those, Barra said. But we're mainly investing and continuing to work on EVs because we think that's the end game. So basically, GEM has no hybrids, which is like so crazy when you think about it. It's so crazy. Yeah. So it still plans to sell plug and hybrids, though electric vehicles remained the automakers long-term stride. It says, it's not confirmed which segments or vehicles might get plug and technology. But previously, Barra said that they would arrive in 2027. The automaker is studying hybrids as it considers how the regulatory landscape could change after the next presidential election in 2028. I feel like, I actually like where we're at, like with the EV market because I feel like there's just a lid for every pot right now. I don't think EVs are being shoved down people's throats. I think people are adapting when they feel like adapting. They're considering as they want to. And the right people have them and the wrong people don't. And I'm actually very happy with Barra with the EV. I'm still excited about them. I still like driving them. I have an EV Hummer in my driveway right now. It's fun. Yeah. They're fun drive. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. They're fun drive. I agree. No one is, there's no more talk of like working rid of all of our ice vehicles. Like there's that talk is kind of dissipated, which is nice, because I was like kind of stressful for a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. So I agree. Options. This is America. Land of options. Land of options. Hyundai dealers want the crater off road vehicle. Okay. The four door crater concept is a Jeep Grand Cherokee size SUV with an electric power train, a high ride height in 33 inch wheels in bulging fenders. So at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November, I guess Hyundai had this concept car that straight up looks like it's out of a video game called the crater, which is not. I'm not loving that name. I don't like crater. I don't look crater. It looks like it's out of Halo, like it looks like them. It's the closest thing we've seen to a cyber truck. Yeah. Like, let's not a cyber truck, like it's better than a cyber truck. But I like if you put it next to cyber truck, I'd be like, Oh, those are the same manufacturer. Yeah. I don't know. It's just a prototype. It's interesting. It's similar like that. They said. And it's interesting. I didn't see this for Hyundai. Yeah, but you say that, but they don't have an off-roading car. No, it's actually a really cool looking car. Yeah. No, it's interesting. It's interesting. I agree. I actually do see it for Hyundai because I just think like they're always trying to get into every segment, you know. Yeah. Or no, that's not that's Nissan. Nissan's always trying to get into every segment. Oh, you know what I mean? Nissan's like, let's do a truck. Let's do a band. Let's do a full set. Like, come down. Let's do an electric. No, like this is how Nissan should release the Xtera. I know. So we'll see. It's worth looking up. It's kind of cool. Fred has left the studio. I don't know where he is. He's probably doing you know what? Right. Right. Okay. Oh, he's back. Okay. Next story. Honda gets a new H logo for a new era on everything from cars to dealerships to motorsports. Honda will adopt a new logo left on everything from electric ride vehicles to dealerships from 2027 replacing the current logo. Okay. Want to see it? Um, current. No. I am very happy about this. I have been saying for years, I think the Honda logo is so outdated that even on a brand new Honda, it makes it look like an old car. So I actually love this. No, I actually like it. I actually, I agree. I think it's a. I think some people are going to be like, I don't like it. But those people are wrong because it's good. It's a good update. People don't like change. This is actually like, yes, this is this makes sense. Yeah. This makes sense. And actually, this is interesting. This, this, if you look at what like the original logo was from the 60s, it actually is more accurate to the new one. Like the evolution. Let me see. Let me flip your camera. This is interesting. Let me show you this. Like they're going back. They're going back in time. Oh, cute. Cute. So it's like, it's futuristic, but it's also like a nod to the past. I actually, I love this. I normally hate change and like hate anything that they try and do, but I love this. Honda is making really good. Honda's got a good team right now. Honda's been doing very good moves lately. I know. I know. Don't you feel? And we can announce the car on car of the year today too. Oh, you're right. We can. Huge news. Huge news. Exclusive story breaking here first. Okay, we are so pleased to announce that the car mom car of the year is drum roll. Please. The 2025 Ford expedition. Which feels right. It feels so right. It was so good. It they kept everything that was amazing and family friendly and wonderful about the expedition, but they just elevated it. So I have one as a press card this week which worked out good. And I'm driving it around and I call Liz and I'm like, you know the feeling you had when you like put on your wedding dress. Yeah. And you were like, this is the one when I sit in the driver's seat of the expedition. I'm like, this is me. This is my car. I have to get the new one. I have to. Yeah. I don't know when we've got some other like whatever like financial goals right now that we're trying to get through. So it's not the right time for me, but like it I have to get it. I love it. I love it. So when the question you get all the time is if you were to buy a car what car would you buy? Can you hear that pop a troll in the background? Yeah, we can hear it, but I think we're all we all used to tuning that kind of stuff out. Okay, Fred, be quiet. Mommy's working. Okay. I would buy. Now I thought about this a lot. Okay. I would obviously buy a 2020 whatever. It doesn't have to be a doesn't have to be a new one. So I might wait till like 27 and then buy a 25 because right now I have a 23 and I'm happy this can be in it. But I'll buy a 2025 Ford Expedition Max with a Bench sheet platinum. Yeah. Wider the Mac right or the not the Mac right like the gray. Tyler was like. I don't think we need the Macs and I'm like. What are you talking about? We absolutely need the Macs. He goes why we're basically a two car family now. Like if we go somewhere we like we'll just take two cars like it like he means like for like a weekend trip. Like if we go to the like we take two cars. Okay. Which is true because by the time for as well Tyler like has to have his truck like he has like an emotional attachment to his truck. It's very strange. It's not because I'm the same way. But like we can't really by the time we like add the dog and like sometimes we like bring like when it's hellers nieces with us down to the lake. And like a pack and play and like a bunch of other stuff like we last summer we took two cars almost every single time we went down to the lake. Yeah. And I'm just sitting there thinking like I've had the I've been driving the expedition this weekend. I've just been you know kind of trying to live my life with just the regular trunk. And I think there's a world where I could just deal with it. Wow that's so interesting because you would have been like wouldn't even consider it. I know. But. But and that's where like it's like cars are so not a one size fits all in just because you have four kids like you a lot of people here you saying that you guys would take two cars for three or a road trip and be like that's crazy. We have the same amount of kids like I like us all to be together like I need mom to go in the back and distribute snacks or whatever like. How you function in your life is like so important when you're making your car buying decision. Yeah. Like it's down to that it's like a max or a or not a max like some people can get by within some people simply can't. Well Fred no Fred Fred no no mommy needs us for her lights trying to unplug my lights we're going down how fast. Anyway I. I so I I don't know I'm not saying that I don't want the max or I don't need the max because I think there's a level of me that would miss it. But I'm just like kind of holding space for that idea right now because the thing is the max versus the regular. Let me tell you something the drive is incredibly different. Like for sure incredibly different. It feels almost to me like a bigger jump than going from like the atlas to the expedition like I hate the length of the max. It just makes the whole it's so hard to park it's so hard to drive. So I don't know we'll see and I mean the looks of the non max are so much better like it's such a more like fun like sexy little car when it's like an expedition. It doesn't immediately give soccer which I thought I'm and not that I'm there's nothing wrong with that I mean I drive on now so I'm just something I'm just playing with in kind of considering. Okay that's fascinating yeah I know we'll see yes okay and now it's time for dish the drive through we give you an easy dinner recipe to mix it up to get you out of your dinner rut can I share what I made for dinner so fast last night because I haven't really. Like I wasn't feeling well and all I had for Maddie was leftovers but like I feel bad after he's like he's had a long day and like I don't just want to be like go heat up your leftovers like it's if food tastes better when summer for you so like I wanted to do that for my husband. And actually I made this and then James also ate it with Maddie and then James asked for it this morning. And that is for you I know it's huge until you hear what it is but so we had like leftover like a like a. Like a pollo pollo asado like a like a like a Mexican chicken and I chopped it up put it over so put it over some chips with shredded cheese popped it in the oven for like five minutes pulled it out and I made nachos and she pan nachos but I made them with like left over chicken like we know we love our pulled pork nachos but I'm just like saying in a pinch when I I basically didn't cook it was just like a different way to reheat. Leftovers instead of like my husband just like looking at this plastic chicken. Like gross yeah but it was already in five minutes and I didn't really have to it was just assembling and Maddie and James both just like ate it over the ate it over the stove it was great. That's it W I had like like a he I'm still riding the high from my Monday night dinner when I. Made something that the entire family ate the entire family tell our set a top 10 dinner for me well and it was for so it's a very cheap dinner so. We had pork steaks the day before and I'm like my thing is like if I'm turning on the black stone like I'm simply like making a lot because it's like not worth it to turn it on for one meal for me so I made so many pork steaks we ate I'm just like playing with potatoes and baked beans on Sunday night and then we had like three leftover pork steaks for Monday dinner and I was going to just like you know kind of for the kid I wasn't going to make it in me I was just like going to make it leftovers but I kind of had your same thing I'm like no I'm going to repurpose this like I'm not just going to I'm going to turn it into something new not just have a leftover and we had I've been craving ramen noodles because we had them on Christmas and they're so good and you can like it's I love a recipe where you can do the most do the least so in my kids love ramen noodles. They call them dad noodles because it's like the only thing telling us how to make them for dinner so we made three packs of ramen noodles I cut up the pork steaks and I put them in a skillet with this Japanese barbecue sauce do you have this I do unbelievable yeah like you don't even need to know how to cook if you have this barbecue sauce I put him in the pan with this Japanese barbecue sauce and a little bit of soy sauce just kind of like let that heat up and like figure out each other cook the ramen noodles microwave some broccoli pulled it out I like separated all the kids so they had like their little Asian pork ramen noodles broccoli on a plate. And then I made myself a fancy bowl so I put a base of the ramen noodles I took some of the broccoli I topped it with some more of that Japanese barbecue sauce my pork chili oil and if I would have like a softwilled egg and like a green onion I really would have been in business but I had neither of those things it was so tasty yeah and tell us like you have to make this more I was like I will and guess what this is a cheap dinner because those pork steaks were 12 bucks ramen noodles are a dollar yeah and the broccoli three dollars a bag it's a great way to read and honestly it's like use the day old pork steak like have the pork steaks in their in their original form the first night because I'll reheated pork steak is never that that's good yeah and then I agree with what you're saying no because you doctor it up but if you were to just like flat out serve pork steak again with the side of broccoli and no Japanese barbecue sauce it would not have been the same. And I think similar to like your sheet pan idea it's like this could have been done with chicken this could have been done with brisket this could have been done with the chuk roast like whatever protein you have out of ramen noodle and fixings and now you have a fancy ramen bowl any basically didn't have to cook and we have to cook so to those are two good ditches good ditch that are I think you guys can take into your weekend you're welcome yeah and we're good and that's our episode so thank you so much for listening to the Carpool podcast so we have a great and safe weekend and we'll talk to you next time. See you bye. Thank you for listening to the Carpool podcast with Kelly and Liz make sure you're subscribed so you never miss an episode and if you enjoyed writing with us tell everybody you know there's room in the car for everyone.